| Chances | |
 Cover from a later reprint of Chances |
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| Author | Jackie Collins |
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| Country | United States of America |
| Series | The Santangelo Novels |
| Publication date | 1981 |
| Published in English |
Warner Books |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 978-0446329439 |
| Followed by | Lucky |
Chances is a 1981 novel by Jackie Collins and is the first novel in The Santangelo Novels series. Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins (born 4 October, 1937) is a British -born Novelist and former Actress. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Santangelo Novels are a Series of novels written by Jackie Collins. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Hachette Book Group USA (HBG is a Publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France. A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth Lucky is a novel by Jackie Collins, the Sequel to Chances and the second in The Santangelo Novels series Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins (born 4 October, 1937) is a British -born Novelist and former Actress. The Santangelo Novels are a Series of novels written by Jackie Collins. The novel has three focal points, two of them focusing on the main characters of the novel and a third during the New York City blackout of 1977.
Contents |
Synopsis
Chances is broken up into parts , the first part looks at the blackout in New York City and how this affects the main characters. The City of New York The second is focused on Gino Santangelo and later includes his children Lucky and Dario. The third part examines the life of Carrie Berkley and later her son Steven.
July 14/15 1977, New York City/Philidelphia
The blackout, a real event that Collins describes in some detail affects all the major characters either directly or indirectly.
- Lucky Santangelo was in Costa Zennocotti's office, trying to convince Costa not to let her father Gino Santangelo return to America, she does not know he is in a plane circling the city. When the blackout occurs she is trapped in an elevator between floors with Steven Berkley. An elevator or lift is a Transport device used to move people or goods vertically from one floor to another The two end up talking and when they are rescued from the lift Lucky goes back to Steven's apartment for breakfast and a change of clothes.
- Steven Berkley, a District Attorney, was in his friend Jerry Myerson's office working on an indictment for Enzio Bonnatti. A district attorney (DA is in some US jurisdictions the title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged criminals In the Common law legal system an indictment (ɪnˈdaɪtmənt (in-DITE-mint is a formal accusation of having committed a criminal offense He ends up trapped in the elevator with Lucky.
- Gino Santangelo was in a plane returning from a seven year tax exile in Israel when the blackout occurs. A tax exile is one who chooses to leave a country and instead to reside in a foreign nation or jurisdiction because personal Taxes there are appreciably lower or even nil For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. His plane is diverted to Philidelphia when in a hotel, a flight attendant tips the press that he is back in the country. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Flight attendants or cabin crew (historically known as stewards air hosts/hostesses or stewardesses) are members of an Aircrew
- Dario Santangelo is trapped in his own apartment after his male lover takes his keys, gun and knife. Dario is forced to phone Costa in order to escape alive.
- Costa Zennocotti stays in his office after the blackout, not willing to walk down all the stairs and Dario calls him and says that he needs something "arranged". Costa calls Sal, a freelance enforcer to take out the boy but ends up double crossing him and kidnapping Dario.
- Carrie Berkley drives to Harlem in her Cadillac Seville to meet a blackmailer, during the blackout she is targeted by a gang of youths who assault her and strip her of her jewellery. Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African American cultural and business center The Cadillac Seville is a luxury car that was manufactured by the Cadillac division of American Automaker General Motors as a limited production Blackmail is the crime of threatening to reveal substantially true information about a person to the public a family member or associates unless a demand made upon the Assault is a Crime of Violence against another person. In some Jurisdictions including Australia and New Zealand, She walks into the middle of the rioting and looking and arrested but her husband, Elliot Berkley, bails her out. The next day, dressed more conservatively, she takes a cab back to Harlem having received another call from the blackmailer.
Gino and Lucky
Gino's story begins in 1921 but backtracks to narrate details of when Gino's parent's, Paulo and Mira Santangelo emigrated to New York City from Italy in 1909 when Gino was three. From an early age Gino takes to a life of crime, stealing a car at the age of fifteen and ending up in a juvenile home.
Carrie and Stephen ===
Epilogue
Main Characters
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